Benjamin Moser
Benjamin Moser (born September 14, 1976, Houston, United States), aged 50, is an American linguist, writer. Moser is best known for Sontag and Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector. Moser's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Biography and Guggenheim Fellowship.
Benjamin Moser’s zodiac sign is Virgo, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Dragon, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Virgo, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Fire Dragon, with 
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Benjamin Moser’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Storyteller
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.
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US rank in 2025
~829,312
Americans share it since 1880
1989
its peak year
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Benjamin’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
1 · 6 · 7
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Sapphire, Emerald, Carnelian
Flower constellation
⭐ Aster · 💜 Lavender · 🌸 Hibiscus
Lavender · Lilac · Scarlet
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What the chart says
Benjamin, according to the stars
Core essence
Benjamin notices. That is the whole thing: the detail everyone else walked past, the small fix that makes the day work, the way you looked slightly off when you said you were fine. The core of Benjamin is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.
How Benjamin wants to be loved
Benjamin wants to be loved beautifully. Venus is at home in Libra: romance, manners, the date that was actually planned, a partner who is fair and easy to be around. Benjamin gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.
How Benjamin creates
How Benjamin makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. Benjamin creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.
Instinct
Instinct: Benjamin is larger than life, a Dragon year, and their gut reaction is to go big. Confident, lucky, a natural at the centre of things, and warm-hearted underneath the spectacle. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Benjamin is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of Benjamin leads without needing to do it alone.
Triggers
Triggers: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. Benjamin fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.
Computed from Benjamin's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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Benjamin Moser in 15 seconds
Virgo Sun
Virgo SunHelps by correcting.
Benjamin Moser's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of September 14, 1976, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Virgo readings associate the sign with precision, service and improvement: noticing what is off and quietly putting it right. Astrologers describe it as the mutable earth sign, ruled by Mercury, and read it for craft and analysis. The corresponding tension is perfectionism, described in the tradition as a standard applied hardest to the self.
Fire Dragon
Fire DragonConfident before the proof.
Benjamin Moser was born on September 14, 1976, which falls in a Fire Dragon year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Dragon readings emphasise confidence, luck and scale: the only mythical animal in the cycle, associated with ambition and with attention that arrives whether or not it was sought. The Chinese almanacs describe the Dragon as the sign of large gestures. The corresponding caution in the tradition is arrogance, and a difficulty with tasks too small to be seen.
Life Path 1
Life Path 1Independent to the core.
Benjamin Moser's birth date, September 14, 1976, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 1 readings associate the number with initiative, independence and the role of going first: deciding, beginning and leading before agreement has formed. Numerologists describe it as the path of the pioneer. The corresponding tension is isolation, with the caution that the front of the line can be a lonely place to stand.
What stands out in Benjamin’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Benjamin Moser's date-only chart is Neptune sextile Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Mercury, Venus, Mars and Pluto, sit together in Libra, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets are in Air signs.
- Benjamin Moser combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Storyteller.
Benjamin’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Benjamin Moser, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 23° to 5° Taurus or Gemini depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
Stable aspects hold for any birth hour. Possible ones depend on the hour, so their orb is a range rather than a number. Orb policy western_v1.
stableMoonconjunctionJupiter0.1° to 7.3° orb
Benjamin’s feelings and growth act as one.
stableNeptunesextilePluto0.5° orb
Benjamin’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSaturntrineNeptune0.9° to 1.0° orb
Benjamin’s discipline flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMarssextileSaturn1.3° to 1.9° orb
Benjamin’s drive opens doors for their discipline.
stableSaturnsextilePluto1.5° orb
Benjamin’s discipline opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableVenusconjunctionMars1.7° to 2.3° orb
Benjamin’s affections and drive act as one.
stableMarssextileNeptune2.3° to 2.9° orb
Benjamin’s drive opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMarsconjunctionPluto2.8° to 3.4° orb
Benjamin’s drive and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableVenussextileSaturn3.0° to 4.2° orb
Benjamin’s affections open doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMercurytrineJupiter4.5° to 5.2° orb
Benjamin’s mind flows straight into their growth. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMercuryconjunctionPluto4.5° to 5.1° orb
Benjamin’s mind and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableVenusconjunctionPluto4.5° to 5.7° orb
Benjamin’s affections and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air5 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Benjamin’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
Four minor bodies and the mean lunar apogee, placed in the same tropical zodiac as the planets above. None of these feed the chart signature, the rarity score or any ranking on this site: they are listed for readers who use them. Chiron, Ceres, Eros and Hygiea positions come from JPL Horizons; Black Moon Lilith is the mean apogee, the point most published Lilith tables use. The readings are the modern tradition’s, not AsterNym’s. Without a birth time the degree is the noon value and the day's movement is shown alongside it.
⚷ Chiron ℞Taurus 1°12′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Taurus is read as a wound around security and worth. The reading has Benjamin building steadiness by hand after finding it could not be assumed.
⚳ CeresLeo 25°50′ (moves 0.44° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Leo is read as nurture through encouragement and applause. Benjamin is read as someone who grows people by making them feel seen.
♡ ErosLeo 4°03′ (moves 0.92° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Leo is read as desire that wants to be adored and to adore in return. The reading has Benjamin loving with an audience in mind, even an audience of one.
⚕ HygieaLeo 22°48′ (moves 0.34° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Leo is read as vitality that runs on purpose and recognition. The reading has Benjamin at their best with something to be proud of.
⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 5°27′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Taurus is read as an unbargained appetite: for pleasure, for ownership, for a body that answers to nobody. Benjamin is read as immovable on those points.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.
- Eros square Uranus 0.7°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Uranus 0.7°
- Eros sextile Mercury 2.0°
- Eros sextile Jupiter 2.9°
Method: JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, 1700–2100, cubic Hermite interpolation; geocentric, true ecliptic of date, tropical; geometric (no light-time or aberration); Lilith = mean lunar apogee (Chapront/Meeus mean perigee + 180°).
Benjamin’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors and aspect count. Without a birth time there is no Ascendant or house to score, and the Moon's sign is left out where it could change with the hour.
1. ♀ Venus8 pts
in its own sign, Libra; disposes Mercury, Mars, Pluto; 3 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Jupiter; 2 major aspects
3. ♇ Pluto6 pts
disposes Uranus; 5 major aspects
A Venus-led chart is read as taste and relationship setting the terms: Benjamin is read as choosing by what is beautiful and who is in the room.
How the score is built
- Rules the Sun sign, Moon sign or Ascendant sign: 3 points each (traditional co-rulers of Scorpio, Aquarius and Pisces score half).
- Sits in a sign it rules: 2 points.
- Disposes another planet (that planet sits in a sign it rules): 1 point each.
- Angular: 2 points in the first or tenth house, 1 point in the fourth or seventh (timed births only).
- Every major aspect it makes: 1 point.
Dominance scoring is an AsterNym method. Other sites weight differently and can name a different leader for the same chart.
Configurations in Benjamin’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy. The Moon is excluded without a birth time, so a shape that needs it is not claimed.
Stellium in Libra · Mercury, Venus, Mars, PlutoThree or more planets in one sign (four, or three with a luminary, by AsterNym's count): a concentration astrologers read as that sign's themes dominating the chart.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile 30° (orb 2°), semi-square 45° (orb 2°), quintile 72° (orb 1.5°), sesquiquadrate 135° (orb 2°), biquintile 144° (orb 1.5°), quincunx 150° (orb 2.5°). Pairs already in a major aspect are not repeated. Moon excluded without a birth time.
- Venus sesquiquadrate Jupiter 0.2°
- Jupiter quintile Saturn 0.8°
- Mercury semi-sextile Uranus 1.3°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Benjamin Moser, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Benjamin’s cards
Every card is computed from September 14, 1976, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
丙
yang Fire
辰
Dragon
Earth
roots & early life
Month
丁
yin Fire
酉
Rooster
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
巳
Snake
Fire
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Benjamin Moser, so this chart has three pillars rather than four. The hour pillar, the rising sign and the birth-sky star all need a time, and we would rather leave them out than invent one.
Where this data comes from
Benjamin’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q4889044, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. No documented birth time is available, so this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. Time-dependent results use a clearly labelled reference time and should not be read as their exact birth chart. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept only at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.
Portrait by Larry D. Moore, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Benjamin Moser at Wikipedia and Instagram.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. Every entry is checked against its Wikidata record; where a person shares a name with someone else, the entity id is what settles which of them this is. What we will not tell you sets out the claims this site refuses to make.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or endorsed by Benjamin Moser.
Quick answers about Benjamin Moser’s chart
- How old is Benjamin Moser?
- Benjamin Moser is 50 years old, born September 14, 1976 in Houston, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Benjamin Moser?
- Benjamin Moser is a Virgo: born September 14, 1976, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Dragon.
- What is Benjamin Moser's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dragon, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 14, 1976 birth.
- What time was Benjamin Moser born?
- No reliably documented birth time is public, so AsterNym does not calculate an Ascendant. This chart uses date-only positions: the wheel shows a reference solar chart (the Sun's sign as house 1), and the Ascendant is left uncomputed instead of guessed from an unverified time.
- What is Benjamin Moser's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology from the September 14, 1976 birth date.
- What is Benjamin Moser's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 1°. Position from JPL Horizons for the September 14, 1976 birth date.
- Where is Benjamin Moser's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 5°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Benjamin Moser's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: in its own sign, Libra; disposes Mercury, Mars, Pluto; 3 major aspects). Mercury is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
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